Anthroponymy
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Anthroponymy (also anthroponymics or anthroponomastics, from
Researchers in the field of anthroponymy are called anthroponymists. Since the study of anthroponyms is relevant for several other disciplines within
Anthroponymists are required to follow certain principles, rules and criteria when researching anthroponyms. The methods used for research are divided into two major categories: the collecting of anthroponymic information and the analysis and interpretation of anthroponyms. The collection of anthroponymic information includes: inscriptions, documents,
Anthroponymy of individual and family names
Anthroponymy of individual and family names, and their mutual correlations, includes the study of:
- Personal names
- Given names
- Surnames
- Nicknames
- Pseudonyms
- Mononyms
- Matronyms
- Patronyms
- Eponyms
- Teknonyms
Anthroponyms of individuals can also be classified according to gender. Names of human males are called andronyms (from Ancient Greek ἀνήρ / man, and ὄνομα / name),[7] while names of human females are called gynonyms (from Ancient Greek γυνή / woman, and ὄνομα / name).[8]
Anthroponymy of group and population names
Anthroponymy of group and population names includes the study of demonyms (names of localized populations),[9] ethnonyms (names of ethnic groups),[10] as well as tribal names and clan names.
Anthroponymy and culture
Anthroponymy is a socio-cultural tool that can be used to find out about an individual's culture. Through the name of a person, their nationality, as well as their history, can be traced. Anthroponyms have both a national and cultural significance as they guarantee the preservation of linguistics, cultural, and historical information.[citation needed]
Related terms and processes
There are several specific terms and processes related to anthroponymy, like:
- anthroponymization, a process when an anthroponym is formed from an
- deanthroponymization, a process when an anthroponym becomes an apellative, like when the surname of the inventor Louis Braille was used to create a name for the writing system for the visually impaired persons (braille).[12]
- transonymization of anthroponyms into Hellenistic Egypt, or when the surname of Christopher Columbus was used to create several choronyms (region names), including names for Southamerican state of Colombia, and Canadian province of British Columbia.[13]
- transonymization of toponyms into anthroponyms, a process when toponyms (place names) are used to form human names (anthroponyms), thus creating various topoanthroponyms.ethnic Ukrainians.[16]
See also
- Birth name
- Middle name
- Legal name
- Double surname
- Toponymic surname
- Ancient Greek personal names
- Bilingual tautological anthroponyms
- Exonym and endonym
- Nominative determinism
- Posthumous name
- Necronym
- Suffix onym
References
- ^ Room 1996, p. 8.
- ^ Bruck & Bodenhorn 2009.
- ^ Ziolkowska 2011, p. 383–398.
- ^ Bourin & Martínez Sopena 2010.
- ^ Fossier 2010, p. 34.
- ^ Boamfa, Ionel (2017). "RESEARCH METHODOLOGY". 4th International Multidisciplinary Scientific Conferences on Social Sciences & Arts SGEM 2017: |page=8 – via Research gate.
- ^ Room 1996, p. 6.
- ^ Barolini 2005, p. 91, 98.
- ^ Roberts 2017, p. 205-220.
- ^ Room 1996, p. 38-39.
- ^ Room 1996, p. 9.
- ^ Room 1996, p. 28.
- ^ Room 1996, p. 30.
- ^ Gary Lefman (2013): Internationalisation of People Names
- ^ Reis 2013, p. 58–61.
- ^ Danver 2015, p. 348-349, 384-387.
Sources
- Barolini, Teodolinda, ed. (2005). Medieval Constructions in Gender And Identity: Essays in Honor of Joan M. Ferrante. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. ISBN 9780866983372.
- Bourin, Monique; Martínez Sopena, Pascual, eds. (2010). Anthroponymie et migrations dans la chrétienté médiévale [Anthroponymy and Migrations in Medieval Christianity]. Madrid: Casa de Velázquez. ISBN 9788496820333.
- Bruck, Gabriele vom; Bodenhorn, Barbara, eds. (2009) [2006]. An Anthropology of Names and Naming (2nd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.[permanent dead link]
- Danver, Steven L., ed. (2015). Native Peoples of the World: An Encyclopedia of Groups, Cultures and Contemporary Issues. London and New York: Routledge. ISBN 9781317464006.
- ISBN 9781400836147.
- Fraser, Peter M. (2000). "Ethnics as Personal Names". Greek Personal Names: Their Value as Evidence (PDF). Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 149–157. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-10-18. Retrieved 2019-10-21.
- Reis, Levilson C. (2013). "The medieval forms and meanings of Francois: The political and cultural vicissitudes of an ethnonym". French Studies Bulletin. 34 (3): 58–61. .
- Roberts, Michael (2017). "The Semantics of Demonyms in English". The Semantics of Nouns. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 205–220. ISBN 978-0-19-873672-1.
- Room, Adrian (1996). An Alphabetical Guide to the Language of Name Studies. Lanham and London: The Scarecrow Press. ISBN 9780810831698.
- Ziolkowska, Magdalena (2011). "Anthroponomy as an Element Identifying National Minority". Eesti ja Soome-Ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri. Journal of Estonian and Finno-Ugric Linguistics. 2 (1): 383–398. .